While I Sleep? ? ?

20: Diary

"Shall I be honest?" Jimin sounds bitter, really really bitter. His expression is scary too, making Taehyung gulp.

"Yes?" Taehyung manages to say.

"Unfair. Extremely unfair." Jimin takes a step closer, arms crossed over his chest.

"I have this roommate, you see. He doesn't do any chores, doesn't help in buying groceries, doesn't even take care of his own room. Life just had to give me this guy, huh?" Jimin's tongue pushes the side of his cheek.

"I–," Taehyung starts, "–what do you want me to do?"

"I don't know." Jimin shrugs, "Clean your room maybe? It's been muddled since...forever!" Jimin shouts.

"Ugh, fine!" Taehyung grunts, making his way to his room.

"Jungkook–," Jimin looks at the boy, "–can you buy the groceries for today?"

"Sure." Jungkook gets up and brings his hoodie from his room. Jimin hands him the money and Jungkook sets off on his journey.

Jimin sighs as the door shuts close after Jungkook walks out of the apartment.

What should he do next?

"The dishes?" Jimin turns towards the kitchen sink, checking on how many plates, cups or utensils actually need to be washed. "Nah I'll make Taehyung do them." He shrugs, chucking off the thought.

Wait a minute.

"I'll clean Jungkook's room!" Jimin says to himself, clapping twice. "Park Jimin, you're a genius."

Jimin checks Jungkook's room, getting startled the next moment.

"How the hell is he so neat?" Jimin mumbles to himself.

Jungkook's room is extremely neat and tidy. Everything is in the proper place and Jimin is shocked for a moment that someone can actually be that neat and arranged.

But Jimin — being the neat freak he is — spots a place he should really be considering to check on.

Cracking his knuckles, exercising his neck, Jimin heads over to Jungkook's closet. Jimin fiercely steps closer to the closet and pulls it open, the doors almost breaking apart.

Hah! I was right! Thinks Jimin.

Ironic to his room, Jungkook's closet is a mess. The clothes are just stuffed up on each other in an untidy way.

"Why is everything so white?" Jimin questions himself, looking at Jungkook's messed up closet.

But, with a childish, happy expression plastered on his face, Jimin starts cleaning Jungkook's closet.

He takes all the clothes out and keeps them on the bed. Then he starts folding them, one by one as he hums various while doing his work.

*

When Jimin is about to keep the last pile of clothes in the closet, his eyes catch note of something.

A brown rectangular object lies at the very back of the closet rack, still and immobile.

Jimin frowns, and pulls out the object after keeping the pile of clothes.

It is a diary.

An old diary.

The diary is a little bent at the edge. There are stains on the surface of it. Jimin opens the diary and the first thing he sees is a picture of Jungkook and another man.

The pages of the diary are yellow, rough and crinkly. At the left corner of the pages are dates written. Every alternate page of the diary has a drawing and on the page adjacent to it is a written piece of what all has happened in that particular day.

On one of the pages, there is a drawing of two kids — one of them comparatively younger. The younger kid has a candy bar in his hand and next to him sits an older boy.

Jimin reads through the next page when a particular line draws his attention.

" My hyung gave me candy today "

Jimin is so deep into the diary, that he is heedless of Taehyung's presence. Throughout this time, he has been so caught by the diary that he left Taehyung's question unanswered.

Taehyung nudges Jimin in the rib, making his friend look at him.

Jimin shifts his gaze from the crinkly diary to Taehyung, a frown still dominant on his face.

"You okay?" Taehyung asks, his gaze teetering between Jimin and the diary.

"Yes. But–," Jimin pauses, "–this diary."

Taehyung slowly takes the diary from Jimin's hand, flipping through the pages. He stops at a particular page and reads out what Jungkook has written.

" I am finally friends with my new roommates. They are fun and jovial. They goof around and play a lot. But they remind me of hyung. " Taehyung reads out.

"Hyung?" Jimin mumbles the word.

There is a silence between the two males. Neither of them speak. Taehyung keeps reading through the diary and Jimin broods over the what Jungkook has written.

"We have to find out." Jimin says. "We need to."

Taehyung thinks for some time, then nods as he says, "To help him."

"To help him." Jimin says in approval, sighing heavily.

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A/n:
Unedited.
Ahhhhhh! Finallyyyyyy!
So basically the thrill should start from here. The mystery starts getting revealed from here.

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